Congrats, you did it!

I went with DonM to his gig on Saturday, outdoors. He had the Audya, using two Bose Compacts. I messed around on guitar just to have something to do, plus, I wanted to hear what guitar/vocal sounded like out of two Compacts. I commented several times as we were playing that wow, this Audya sounds awesome. It really does. Of course, I like my s900, too, but geez, I just love the Audya live sound. I'm gonna get my s900 out and play it some more. It's lonely.

I also noted how good the Audya piano sound is.

Frank,

i would have played Portuguese music all day,
but unfortunately the AUDYA has 0 Audya Styles OOTB

Leezone,

Nice to see you beat Diki to it , but he never said he would get one, great all the banter leading up to it, know you will need to wait the same amoutn of time for me to show my dangly bits in M&S, wish they would go bust like Wersi! Leezone I hope you enjoy your Audya, it's been a long and hard road to this point but I think they got there in the end. Don't you agree.

Come to think of it, it was Spalding, is there a M&S near him.


All the best

Tony

Leezone,

Bloody good copy, have you found a way of printing the number different on each one!

Hi Lee, congrats on your new purchase I hope it's everything you dreamed of and more! I remember when I bought my first Solton product the SoltonX1 I really enjoyed it even though it broke down so many times which is in the end why I traded it in for the PA80 back then, I still miss the quality of the Latin styles although there are some decent ones on the T3 but not anywhere near as many.

I thought maybe you would have waited a few more weeks just to see what the T4 will be all about as it's so close to release? We don't know nearly enough about the T4 and it may turn out to be something that you'd really like unless it was always going to be the Audya no matter what!

Good luck.
Danny

Danny all good points, especially the waiting part on the T4...!
Leezone good luck with your new module, I'm sure we'll hear much more in the weeks to come

i was thinking about waiting to hear the T4

but i have a feeling the drums will still be disappointing for me

and besides i need the ability to import my own audio drum grooves to create my portuguese, brasilian, etc
and i may buy some as well

the first thing i noticed when i opened the AUDYA4 is the power is on the side
and Ketron decides to give you a straight power plug, so it can stick out, straight out the side,

now wouldn't it make sense for Ketron to include a right-angle plug so that the power cord goes along the side of the unit?

Frank was nice enough to throw ina n extra right angle power plug
thanks Frank

"now wouldn't it make sense for Ketron to include a right-angle plug so that the power cord goes along the side of the unit?"

I sure hope that's your biggest disappointment!!
DonM

Let the whining commence...

Just don't sell that G70 for a while, Lee

My take on all this is, it doesn't matter what you have JUST bought. It matters if you are still playing the same thing five, ten years from now. Somehow, I doubt it. Well, not unless Ketron change radically from what they did with the SD-1, and release GOBS of new styles for the Audya on a continuing basis.

But best of luck with it, Lee. Instead of whining about what it hasn't got (although no other keyboard had it either!), now you'll be able to whine about what it actually DOES (noticed your first so-called 'bug' report already!)!

You know what I'd REALLY like to hear? I'd like to hear some styles from it that DON'T use the live loops, either for drums or guitar. Down the line, this may be all the new stuff you can get it to do (trust me, putting a whole coherent style together with Intros, Endings, fills, etc., from commercial audio loops is not easy!). How good the onboard MIDI drum kits and guitars are might start to matter a LOT more once the new car smell has worn off...

Here's a good indicator of things... On your G70, how many of the styles you use now are ones you've added to it, vs. the original ROM styles? If the answer is more than a few, you'd better hope that Ketron get busy..!

Best of luck, again. Just don't go screaming 'BUG!' every time you can't figure something out

“it doesn't matter what you have JUST bought. It matters if you are still playing the same thing five, ten years from now.”

And that is what manufacturers are saying.
Ketron is probably like Yamaha in that they want you to buy a now keyboard every 2-3 years. So whether you can get styles for the keyboard 2-3 years later is not the manufacturer’s concern. In fact, they want you to not have styles for your 2-3 year old keyboard so that you can buy the next hardware board with new styles.


Yamaha and Ketron do not want persons to do like what some owners of the Roland G70 and Gem Genesys do. They don’t want customers to use the keyboard to its full potential and not buy another keyboard until 10 years later. Why? It doesn’t allow them to get a lot of sales on a now keyboard and it forces them to put resources on a 2-3 year old keyboard rather than put resources on their new keyboard.
And if all of this sounds like hogwash, just ask yourself why is Roland not making TOTL arrangers and why Gem is no longer in business.

You had better hope Ketron is following Yamaha’s business practices. Just look for the past 6 years at lease Ketron’s attentions has been on the Augya.